Something remarkable is happening

Details: Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2016 11:15; Written by editor

Friends,

We accidentally gave you the wrong date for the Break Free actions in Vancouver.

They'll take place on May 13th and 14th -- in just a month! Click here to sign up!

The corrected email is below -- apologies,

Cam Fenton

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r52 Something remarkable is happening.

Friends,

This February was the hottest in recorded history, scorching crops and flooding homes all across the planet. Record-breaking temperatures have robbed the Arctic of its winter.

Yet despite this, governments around the world still plan to build massive new coal mines and open new oil and gas fields.

But everywhere they do, something remarkable is happening: resistance. This May, from the oil and gas fields of Nigeria and Brazil to the coal fields of Germany and Australia, people have made their intentions clear: they intend to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground, and are willing to put their bodies on... the line to do it. That's what Break Free is about: escalating the global fight to keep fossil fuels underground and accelerate the just transition to the renewable energy economy we know is possible.

In Canada, we’ve seen the new federal government come in with ambitious plans for climate action, on the one hand, and close ties to the fossil fuel industry, on the other.

That’s why hundreds of people will take action on May 13th -14th against the Kinder Morgan pipeline on the West Coast right as the National Energy Board makes its final recommendation for the project.

This will send a clear message to the government: people choose a 100% renewable energy future over fossil fuel infrastructure that would look us into oil-dependence for decades. Click here to join this action from May 13th and 14th.

The good news is that the transition to renewable energy is coming sooner and faster than anyone thought. 90% of the new electricity generation installed last year was renewable, leading to 2 years running of flat - though still too high - global carbon emissions.

But the real reason I see for hope is in the resistance to fossil fuels that is growing everywhere this industry turns. Break Free will be one of those moments that you will remember, and if you can join in, you will be a part of something special.

It’s likely that this fight is the biggest humanity will ever face. It may look like the odds are stacked against us, but no fight worth fighting has ever been easy.

Bill McKibben for the 350 team

Break Free is a climate movement initiative to shut down the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects and support the most ambitious climate solutions. r38